The elaborate escape of Mexico’s most-wanted drug kingpin from a maximum security prison reads like a crime thriller: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán slipped through a hole in his shower cell, descended a 10m ladder where a 1,500m tunnel – equipped with ventilation and lighting – led him to a recently-built house. It was his second successful escape from maximum-security lock-up.
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El Chapo's L-shaped prison cell in Mexico's Altiplano Federal Penitentiary ![Free Image Hosting]()
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The square hole that was removed from the shower floor appeared to have been neatly cut. It appears acid, a blowtorch and a car jack was used. Wardens supposed to be looking after El Chapo were ALL taken off duty at time of his escape. It's reported that the people working in prison administration were ordered to work as guards and were then forced to take an hour's break between eight and nine. El Chapo's escape through a secret tunnel happened at 8.51pm
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Engineers would have been required to remove of more than 3,500 tonnes of earth More than 3 kilometers of steal pipe (for the rails), 1.5 kilometers of PVC pipe, a large amount of wood and heavy machinery, not needed for farming ![]()
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The area around the prison is a sprawling construction site, with giant water pipes, trenches and excavation crisscrossing the landscape, and that would have made it easy for the tunnel work to go unnoticed,
Mexican authorities are keeping a close eye on the beauty queen wife of El Chapo under the assumption that the escaped drug cartel leader may try to contact her.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, 60, and Emma Coronel, 25, were married in 2007, just after she turned 18; the beauty queen is his third wife and the mother of Guzman’s twin girls
